I just got reminded of Shakespeare Star Wars again. So good.
It is a period of civil war. The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er The cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift.
I really like this interview!
Yoda speaks in haiku, not iambic pentameter.
Nay, size matters not. Look thou at me, I pray thee. Judge me by my size, An were you should not, For my ally ‘tis the Force, A pow’rful ally.
The author has a web page that includes links to free Educator’s Guides in PDF format.
I also see some other books up there. “MacTrump: A Shakespearean Tragicomedy of the Trump Administration, Part I” 😆
@22 linked me to an Old Norse version, too. The blog post is hilarious.
The story as presented in George Lucas’s films represents only one manuscript tradition, and a rather late and corrupt one at that – the Middle High German epic called *Himelgengærelied* (Song of the Skywalkers). There is also an Old High German palimpsest known to scholars, later overwritten by a Latin choral and only partly legible to us today, which contains fragments of a version wherein “Veitare” survives to old age after slaying “Lûc” out of loyalty to the emperor, but is naturally still conflicted about the deed when the son of his daughter Leia avenges the killing on him. – Tattúínárdǿla saga
The link to the actual saga PDF is right before Chapter 1 begins.
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The “gen” (which means “re-”) in “Himelgengærelied” implies that they’re undead. 😱
“Himelgengærelied” means “Heavenly Zombiesong”.
– Sandra 2023-01-18 16:34 UTC
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I guess that makes it even better?
Although: Is your reading of “gen” based on Swedisch? I implicitly translated it to “Himmelsgängerlied” – the song of one who walks the sky. The blog post does say “Middle High German”.
– Alex 2023-01-18 17:15 UTC
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Ah, the web to the rescue:
**gengære**, genger, mhd., st. M.: nhd. Gänger, Umherzieher; Vw.: s. strūch-, under-, vuoz-; Hw.: vgl. mnd. gengære*; Q.: Renner (1290-1300); E.: s. ahd. gangarāri* 2, gangāri*, st. M. (ja), „Gänger“, Pilger, Wanderer; s. gangan; W.: nhd. (ält.) Gänger, M., Gänger, Gehender, Wanderer, Fußgänger, DW 4, 1246; L.: Lexer 61c (gengære), LexerHW 1, 856 (gengære), Benecke/Müller/Zarncke I, 477b (genger) – Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch, 3. A. 2014, Buchstabe G
Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch, 3. A. 2014, Buchstabe G
Phew! Perhaps the *Pride and Prejudice and Zombies* reference by Ian Doescher stuck. 😀
– Alex 2023-01-18 17:19 UTC